Cerro Pardo
| Cerro Pardo | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Cerro Pardo ( Spanish ; in Argentina Cerro Madre ) is a 1000 m high hill in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the south of the Trinity Peninsula, it rises 5 km north-northeast of Mount Reece .
Chilean scientists named him after Luis Pardo (1882-1935), captain of the Yelcho in the 1916 rescue of the participants in the endurance expedition (1914-1917) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton who were stranded on Elephant Island . The background of the Argentine naming is not known.
Web links
- Pardo, Cerro in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)